The big cotton debate at the WTO ministerial conference in Cancun in September 2003, revealed that certain African countries no longer wanted just to export cotton fibres with a low value-added, but wanted to start selling fabrics and clothes.

The term ‘natural fibres’ includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003, as well as wool-fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203, and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

16. Calls on the participants in the cotton value chain to avoid unilateral measures such as export bans, to strive for increased transparency and coordination in order to reduce price volatility and the scope for speculation, and to work to ensure the traceability of the cotton fibre trade on the open market;

The term ‘natural fibres’ includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003, as well as wool-fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203, and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

86.2 (1) Cotton or man-made fibre fabric and cotton or man-made fibre made-up textile goods provided for in Chapters 52 to 55, excluding goods containing 36% or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair, and in Chapters 58, 60 and 63 in the List of Tariff Provisions set out in the schedule to the Customs Tariff that

The European cotton sector is of great social and economic importance to the cotton-producing areas, not only because of the direct revenue earned by cotton producers and ginning factories, but also because many other sectors of the economy (from harvesting to marketing the cotton fibre) are dependent on it.

The term ‘natural fibres’ includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003, as well as wool fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203, and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

4.2. The term "natural fibres" includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003, as well as wool-fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203, and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

At the processing level, a mixture of private enterprises and co-operatives assure the conversion of raw to usable cotton through the ginning process, by which the cotton fibres are separated from the cotton seed.

At the processing level, a mixture of private enterprises and co-operatives assure the conversion of raw to usable cotton through the ginning process, by which the cotton fibres are separated from the cotton seed.

The first issue concerned any potential differences in the characteristics between genetically modified cotton fibres and those derived from non-GM cotton plants which would influence the risk assessment of the GM fibres.

The SSC concluded that there is no reason or evidence to believe that the genetic modifications introduced in the two GM cotton lines for which authorisations are pending in Europe could result in the formation of GM cotton fibres which will be different than their non GM counterparts.

In addition, the SSC considered that the available analytical evidence suggests that any protein, be it endogenous or introduced into cotton by genetic modification should be denatured or removed ruing processing of cotton fibres and their transformation into final products.

The percentage reduction in the guide price which now applies, equal to half the overrun in the national guaranteed quantity, has proved an effective budgetary stabiliser and has enabled Community cotton production to be maintained despite major fluctuations in the world market for cotton fibre .

– (EL) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, cotton, which is the subject of today's debate, is basically grown in two Member States of the European Union, Greece and Spain, but it concerns the whole Union because there may be cotton processing and cotton fibre and textile producing factories in any Member State of the Union.

the fibres will be exported, although there is no way to find out whether or not they derive from GM plants( the "raw" cotton fibre is an elongated single cell containing a dead nucleus – so there is no chance to identify the DNA).

2. The term "natural fibres" includes horsehair of heading No 0503, silk of heading Nos 5002 and 5003 as well as the wool fibres, fine or coarse animal hair of heading Nos 5101 to 5105, the cotton fibres of heading Nos 5201 to 5203 and the other vegetable fibres of heading Nos 5301 to 5305.

4.2. The term "natural fibres" includes horsehair of heading 0503, silk of headings 5002 and 5003, as well as wool-fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203, and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.

4.2. The term 'natural fibres` includes horsehair of heading No 0503, silk of heading Nos 5002 and 5003 as well as the wool fibres, fine or coarse animal hair of heading Nos 5101 to 5105, the cotton fibres of heading Nos 5201 to 5203 and the other vegetable fibres of heading Nos 5301 to 5305.

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